ha, sounds reasonable :)  thanks Christoph!

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Christoph Lohmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:17:38 +0100 Bobby Powers <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Has an issue with st where the _'s were being overwritten when text on
> > the next line was drawn.  This didn't happen in gnome-terminal, which
> > uses pango for its font rendering.  Pango's Xft backend uses ascent +
> > descent rather than height.  This appears to date back to at least
> > 2004 (pango commit 5bf0c1d0) so I'm not sure their exact reasoning,
> > but it fixes the Monospace font height issue I am seeing.
>
> I applied the patch without the big useless comment. If there would be a
> comment about all wrong behaviour of xft and how bad the fontconfig  API
> is, st would double its raw source size.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Christoph Lohmann
>
>
>

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